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Merlin sheldrake6/7/2023 In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties, which have influenced societies since antiquity, have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. They can solve problems without a brain, stretching traditional definitions of ‘intelligence’, and can manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In this captivating adventure, Merlin Sheldrake explores the spectacular and neglected world of fungi: endlessly surprising organisms that sustain nearly all living systems. Its ability to digest rock enabled the first life on land, it can survive unprotected in space, and thrives amidst nuclear radiation. It can be microscopic, yet also accounts for the largest organisms ever recorded, living for millennia and weighing tens of thousands of tonnes. Neither plant nor animal, it is found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works… Chekhov play uncle6/7/2023 Their lives are full of hard work and minimal comforts. Vanya (Jacob Coleman), Astrov (Prentice Onayemi) and Sonya (Joellen Sweeney) live and work in the country. Uncle Vanya tells a story of class disparity between Russian "provencials" and city-dwelling Russian elites. Working from a new translation by Štepán Šimek, PETE's production keeps Chekhov's plot and characters intact. Often, contemporary productions of Anton Chekhov's plays either feel like nothing more than a new coat of paint on an old shed, or something unrecognizable from the source material.īut Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble manage to make the 1899 play feel fresh, but still recognizable as Uncle Vanya. Staging a classic play like Uncle Vanya requires a difficult balance. (Owen Carey) By R Mitchell Miller Januat 12:31 pm PST Albright noted that Atargatis was “sexless,” and frequently assigned an “androgynous blend” of qualities by scholars of the time (he doesn’t expand on what these qualities were). Interestingly, in a 1925 paper, archaeologist W. In the first century B.C.E., he wrote that Atargatis possessed “the face of a woman, and otherwise the entire body of a fish.” Macalister credits the ancient Greek historian Diodorus Siculus with offering the fullest and best-preserved mention of her. It is, however, the Syriac fertility goddess Atargatis (‘Derketo’ to the Philistines, and, later, the Greeks) who’s said to be the first mermaid in the written record. In the first century B.C.E., Diodorus Siculus wrote that Atargatis possessed “the face of a woman, and otherwise the entire body of a fish.” Tootle golden book 19456/7/2023 One of the most beloved children's stories ever -the classic Little Golden Book tale of Scuffy, an adventurous little tugboat. For over 50 years, parents and children have cherished this classic Little Golden. But on his daring adventure Scuffy realizes that home is where he’d rather be, sailing in his bathtub. Meant for “bigger things,” Scuffy the Tugboat sets off to explore the world in this delightful Read & Listen edition. Scuffy the Tugboat: Read & Listen Edition For over 50 years, parents and children have cherished this classic Little Golden Book. Meant for “bigger things,” Scuffy the Tugboat sets off to explore the world. Crampton was born in New York in 1909, and studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Gertrude Crampton (1909-1996) wrote the beloved classic Little Golden Books Tootle (published in 1945) and Scuffy the Tugboat (published in 1946), both of which have never been out of print. Seuss to Dora the Explorer, Random House has books featuring Recommendations on our bestselling pre-school,įor a full list of book recommendations try Searchįrom Dr. Jeff Stone lives in the Midwest with his wife and two children and practices the martial arts daily. No, this first half of the book is pure, unadulterated delight as Mel and Will trade barbs worthy of any Shakespearean funny couple. Let’s not question the rationale of such a plan, shall we, for we all know that in the local gaol, one can pick handsome, sexy, all-round-hunk and roguish men like William Taggart. So Mel decides, hola! She will go to the local gaol, pick up a criminal, fake a marriage, and when Eileen is safely wedded, send that fellow off with a pouch of coins. You see, the naughty Grandpa Mooresby who holds the financial reins of the family has declared that Eileen can’t marry unless Mel marries first. Eileen is pregnant with her fiance’s child, and to save Eileen’s good name, Mel must marry. The shrewish She-Devil of Mooresby Hall is Melisande who runs the entire Mooresby holding with an iron grip. Ms Claybourne has obviously taken a leaf out of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew for the plot. It’s all here in this book, Tiger by the Tail by Casey Claybourne. It’s true, I swear! I saw it – or rather, read it – with my own eyes. Not only that, these little green monsters substitute the abductees with clones. Alien abductions occur also in books, romance novels included. Grace by Paul Lynch6/6/2023 The potato harvest has failed and Grace doesn’t fully grasp what is to come as the landlord’s rent collector will want a rent that cannot be payed. As the story begins, Grace, a young, girl of twelve, is living with her subsistence farming mother and siblings in a hut in The Black Mountains in Donegal. This book covers several themes, why was there a famine, who starved and why, and what are people capable of when faced with hunger. Grace, a story of the famine as if you were, there tells the story of Grace’s survival, read for the Roman De Rochefort. Colly says, this was a house of tree eaters, I told you this was going on. She wonders why an elm has had its bark stripped to head height and sees another just like it. They stand in the yard of an abandoned farmhouse that shapes its gloom over a barren garden, a feeling of emptiness like presence. Camp Club Girls by Linda Carlblom6/6/2023 Why are wild elk running amok in Estes Park? During a stay at the historic Stanley Hotel, Bailey and Kate encounter out-of-control stampedes that put the townsfolk and tourists in danger. Will the girls discover the whereabouts of eccentric millionaire Marshall Gonzalez? What’s the meaning of the mysterious messages beneath shaggy sheep coats at the Curly Q ranch? The Camp Club Girls are determined to uncover the clues as they investigate a strange string of events. Join Bailey and the Camp Club Girls as they embark on a series of clue-filled adventures and crack the case in this entertaining and action-packed 4-in-1 mystery collection. Crimson petal and the white6/5/2023 There are a number of supporting characters, and rather than the usual story of a "tart with a heart" winning her man, "Pretty Woman" style, it is the slow development of love in those characters who both crave it and think they're beyond it. The story weaves through Sugar and William meeting and her deciding to improve her lot because of William's infatuation for her. The main characters are Sugar, a much sought after prostitute with many qualities not usually found in the fallen women of fiction, and William, a typical Victorian father who thinks he is anything but typical of his class and time. The book is a narration of several intertwined people's lives over the period of about a year, the narrator being an integral part.Through these lives, a story of how love comes into the most unlikely of lives. This book is the "Marmite" of historical fiction readers/listeners will either love it or loathe it. Hush hush second book6/5/2023 Her smooth delivery is full of the emotion present in every heart-pounding scene of each story. Simmering with suspense and romantic tension, Hush, Hush keeps listeners focused on the ultimate question: Can true love survive the seemingly insurmountable divide between Earth and the realm of immortals?Ĭaitlin Greer is an actress and voice-over artist best known for her work as the narrator of the Hush, Hush novels, giving a voice to Nora that makes her seem not only real-a typical adolescent-but also totally believable. As the series progresses, more secrets unfold-about what really happened on the night Nora’s father vanished and about Patch’s prior life. But from what? After a terrifying and almost deadly encounter, it seems that Patch is in her life for good-for better or for worse. Strange things keep happening to Nora, making her think she’s losing her mind-until she discovers that Patch is a fallen angel sent to protect her. Although his behavior is at times off-putting, Nora can’t help but be drawn to him. Nora is forced to sit next to Patch in biology, a class the older boy has failed several times. But with the entrance of the mysterious senior Patch Cipriano into her life, things are about to turn extraordinary-and get a lot more dangerous. In Coldwater, Maine, Nora Grey has been living life as an ordinary high school sophomore. |